Benedicto Crespo Facorro

Benedicto Crespo-Facorro is Full Professor of Psychiatry (2016-) at the University of Seville, Director of the Mental Health Department of the Virgen del Rocio University Hospital (Seville) (2019-), Principal Investigator of the Psychiatry Research Group of CIBERSAM (2008-) and of the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS) CTS-1086 (2019-), Coordinator of the National Schizophrenia Program of CIBERSAM (2016-), Full Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Cantabria (2015-) where he was vice-president (2015-2019). Scientific Director of IIS Valdecilla-IDIVAL (Santander) (2017-2019), where he was coordinator of the neurosciences area (2009-2019) and member of the Research Commission (2003-2019). Deputy Director of the Department of Medicine and Psychiatry of the University of Cantabria (2009-2019). At clinical level, he has been the director of the early intervention care program in psychosis in Cantabria (2001-2019; PAFIP), a program that led to the recognition of institutions and patient associations; being a pioneer at the national level and having generated a clinical cohort of high relevance in the field of schizophrenia at the international level. He obtained his PhD in psychiatry at the Complutense University (1997) and continued his postdoctoral research career at the University of Iowa, USA (1996-2000). In 2007 he received the Banco Sabadell Foundation Award for Biomedical Research (clinical researcher to date).

He currently maintains several international institutional collaborations (academic and research) with European and American Universities, as well as multiple collaborations with National Universities. He is Principal Investigator of “Plan Nacional” projects since 2001 and collaborator and Principal Investigator in European (FP7/H2020) and NIMH projects. 15 theses directed. Author of 2 patents and director of the Neuroimaging unit of IDIVAL (2009-2019). Current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health (JCR, Q2) (2019-). In 2021 he has been appointed Professor Honoris Causa by the Favaloro University of Argentina. His bibliometric analysis reflects 367 published articles, 15811 citations received, and H index (Scopus) 59. His ORCID profile is: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0033-7132